Copyrights and Acknowledgements

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also modify it as you wish, and distribute these modified versions as long as you indicate prominently any
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Requested Acknowledgement
The authors kindly ask you to acknowledge the use of the Splotch package
in your publications in the following form:

At the first image produced with Splotch, a footnote placed in the main
body of the paper referring to the Splotch web-site - currently
http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~kdolag/Splotch

12.7.2010: Further code reorganization to separate scene maker from the renderer. Additional speed up of the renderer.
GPU support (via CUDA) still preliminary. Patched on 22.7.2010.Note that the format of the parameter file has been updated again!v 4.1a

25.11.2009: Major code reorganization to be much more modular. Now contains readers for different file formats,
is fully MPI/OpenMP parallelized and allows to utilize GPUs (via CUDA).Note that the format of the parameter file has changed!v 4.0

09.06.2009: Fixed some typos in parameter file and source code. Now also supports OpenMP.v 3.1

11.04.2008: Many improvements, now allows to select individual
smoothing lengths for stars, freely select a block to visualize,
color palette is now read from files, or select a 3-vector to
represent the colors from file.v 3.0

16.08.2006: Many improvements, now allows to process a geometry file to render several different aspects of a single simulation without reloading the data from disk.v 2.0

Test Example and Documentation

A example parameter file to visualize
a given color table. The following color tables are distributed with
Splotch 4.2 and higher: Blue.palKlaus.palM51_stars.palOldSplotch.palRedBlue.jpgYellow.jpgBlueSimple.jpgLongFancy.palMartin.palOrion.palStars.palFancy.palM51.palNewSplotch.palOrionNew1.palTipsy.palTronInv.pal

To obtain a first guess parameter file for any simulation, just run splotch with
this parameter file and modify it
according to the output. You will obtain a reasonable image/parameter file as
a starting point for further fine tuning. Works with Splotch 4.2 or higher.